This is where I disagree with most people. Yes, it was injury that forced our hand to change the offense, but I have never though MM is unimaginative, stupid, blind, or without a plan. He could have been considered stubborn, I prefer to call him committed, because he's smart enough and proven enough for me to choose my words carefully when talking about him.
But what we saw, I thought, was his commitment to making this team better, by making the offense evolve. For a few years now, when it comes to winning one on ones we've come up short. When we've needed to get a first down to close out a nfccg we couldn't. Teams that can rush well with 4 and clog up passing lanes like the giants did, bring the offense to a halt. We needed to be able to run different offenses effectively.
I think MM was forcing them to grow thru adversity. It's no different than anything else in life, if all you ever do is play C,G, and D you can play some good songs, maybe even be famous, but you'll never be Prince, Clapton, Emmanuel, SV or SRV. Not that MM wanted us to struggle, but he recognized we had areas of weakness that needed to be better to compete in January and Feb.
I think last years struggles were different than this years. We have new issues this year and new hurdles to clear. As bad as things were/are, simply having better execution of the plays we did run would have resulted in more offense and more wins.
Long story short, we have work to do, but I have faith in this team and the coaches
